Floor-mop.



E. NAHR.

FLOOR MOP. APPLICATION FILED JUNE I4. I9I5.

1,159,252. Patented Nov. 2, 19H).

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FLOOR-TIO?.

Original application filed April 10, 1914,

To @ZZ whom t may concern.'

Be it known that l, EDWIN Nenn, a citi- Zen of the United States, and a resident of Long Beach, in the county of Los Angeles and State ci California, have invented a new and Improved Floor-Mop, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present application is a division of an application led by me April 10, 1914., Serial ilo. 830,883, and it particularly relates to the means for fastening a mop cloth on a mop head.

The invention will be particularly en plained in the specific description following. Reference is had to 'the accompanying drawings forming` part of this specification,

in which similar characters of reference in-l flicate corresponding part-s in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a front View cfa mop embodying my invention, part of the handle being broken away; Figi. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation; Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional elevation; and Fig. l is a plan View of the spring fastener for the mop pad or cloth.

In the illustrated example, a cap or case 10 is provided adapted to receive the upper end of the mop pad 11, which is secured to the casing in the novel manner hereinafter described. @n the case 10 at the top are spaced angle plates 12 having feet 13 secured to the top of the case by rivets 14, or equivalent ineens. Plates 12 have registering bearings 15, and the ferrnle 16 of' the handle 17 has expansible bearing elementsilS, 1.9, revoluble in the bearings 15 and iictionally held therein by a spring 2O positioned between said members 18, The springr is shown as coiled about a pin 21 on the ferrule 16.

The above described features form no part of the present invention, being claimed in my application above referred to.

ln order to maintain the mop pad 1i in oiled condition for readily taking up dust, l provide a novel and effective means for the supply and even distribution of the oil. ln the top oi the case 10 a depression or sbal- .loW Well Q2 is formed at the approximate center of said case, and. an oriiice in the case at the bottoni or said Well leads to the distributing absorbent pad 24. The said pad lies against the topY of the case at the under side, and is geccation of Letters Patent.

Patented ov. 2, 1915.

Serial No. 830,883. Bivi'ded and this application filed June 14,

Serial No. 34,032,

held in position by a fastener 25 which secures the upper end of the mop pad 11. The fastener 25 consists of two resilient sect-ions, as shown in Fig. i. The sections are so connected as to permit of the fastener being compressed laterally against ythe resiliency or" the sections, and also the said sections may have rockable movement relatively to each other, the connections' serving to facilitate the entrance of formed at one end with van eye 26 embracing the adjacent terminal of the opposite section, said adjacent 'terminal having a. bent end 27 constituting a stop limiting' the lateral expansion of the sections. The fastener 25 is placed in the interior of the pad 11, at the top, the material of the pad beinggathered above said fastener, and the hunched top of the pad with the fastener therein is inserted Within the lower open end of the` case or cap 10, said open bottoni of the cap 'or case being dened by an inwardly projecting flange 10a. The end of the pad is crowded between the iiange 10a and the under side of the oilpad 24, and the fastener 25 expands Within the case above the flange 10, thereby holding the mop pad securely in position in Contact with the oil parl 2e.

The construction results in properly lioldimgI the oil pad 24 in position relatively to the mop pad, and in proper contact with the latter so that the mon pad will, by capillary attraction, take un the oil from the oil pad.

The oil-supplyingYV features, it 'will be clear, result in Aan eliective oiling ci' the mop pad, and tbe construction permits of the ready removal ot the mop pad for Washing, when desired.

The cap 10 is ot' oval torni, being approximately elliptical, and thereby is adapted for cilei'ive use beneath furniture and in corners.

Having` thus described my what l claim as new Letters Patent,

invention, and desire to secure by is:

l. in a rlefice oli' the character described. a mop head cinnprising a case having an oil inlet at the top and an open" lower end formed `with an inwardly projet-.ting flange. an oil pad disposed in said case against the top thereof, a mop pad, and a resilient tener within the mop parl at the upper end,

l the fastener into the vcase 10. l have shown the sections as each the said fastener being disposed above the open lower end formed with an inturned annular ange, a mop pad extending at its and a resilient' fastener at the interior of the mop and withvupper end Within said case,

in the case and serving to bind'the mop pad against the interior of Said ca se, said fas-v tener being formed of two .sectlons movable relatively to each other.

l.3.' In a device of the character described,

a mop head comprising a case, and'means for fastening a mop pad therein, said means extending around the case 4mit the interior and composed of ltW'o resilient sections'laterally expansible and having` an articulated connection with each other.

In testimony whereof I have subscribed my name te this speeiication in the presence of 'twe subst`r filingy Witnesses.

EDWIN NAHR. 

